Politics - 12 June 2007

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet...Hell, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights. In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care. When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don't care. When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and -you guessed it: I don't care!!!!

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your e-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, and then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country!

And may I add:
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." Ronald Reagan

I have another quote that I would like to add AND.. ..I hope you forward all this.

"If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." also by... Ronald Reagan

One last thought for the day: In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his
Parliament members why he believes so much in America, he said:
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in, And how many want out."
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM.
AMEN!

2007-06-12 06:06:44 · 24 answers · asked by plezurgui 6

China already has both an Army and Navy?
India already has both an Army and Navy?

And then there's always the developing third world... like the Colombian Air Force

And there may be money left over for more tax breaks for the wealthiest

2007-06-12 06:02:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Soldiers suspected of alien smuggling
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_us/soldiers_immigrant_smuggling;_ylt=ApBGGKkaJVQeo1O.yjFnMRVvzwcF

LAREDO, Texas - Three National Guardsmen assigned to the Texas-Mexico border were accused of running an immigrant smuggling ring after 24 immigrants were found inside a van that one of them was driving, a U.S. attorney said Monday.

The three, arrested late Thursday and Friday, were arraigned Monday on a federal charge of conspiring to transport illegal immigrants.

Pfc. Jose Rodrigo Torres, 26, and Sgt. Julio Cesar Pacheco, 25, both of Laredo, and Sgt. Clarence Hodge Jr., 36, of Fort Worth, were arrested near Laredo.

A Border Patrol agent found 24 illegal immigrants inside a van Torres was driving along Interstate 35 near Cotulla, Texas, about 68 miles north of the border, prosecutors said. Torres was in uniform at the time of his arrest Thursday.

The van was leased by the National Guard, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Prosecutors accused Hodge of helping Torres pass through a Border Patrol checkpoint on the highway by making it look like the two were conducting Guard business.

2007-06-12 05:58:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 05:57:38 · 24 answers · asked by Jasmine 5

2007-06-12 05:55:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone realize that discussions centering on political issues have become so mean-spirited that now its just a heated exchange of vile malicious comments?

Why do people seriously think that character assissasination of a figure will help them gain any rational ground, other than having a receptive crowd who agrees with them?

2007-06-12 05:54:41 · 5 answers · asked by ibid 3

Top Dems --- including Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Kerry and Kennedy --- fought very hard to allow doctors to continue crushing the skulls of babies who could live outside the womb via partial birth abortion.

Do you support their dreams of once again making it legal?


"The physician will then either crush the skull or will use a vacuum to remove the brain and other intracranial contents from the fetal skull, collapse the fetus’ head, and pull the fetus from the uterus."


http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PartialBirthAbortionRecentDevelopments.html

2007-06-12 05:53:50 · 12 answers · asked by tip zz 2

After the truth came out in WWII about the holocaust, many refused to believe what was going on.

It seems like today there are many people who deny the 40 million lives that have been killed by abortion. Does anyone else notice similarities?

See the pictures on this link for what is being murdered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm

2007-06-12 05:52:07 · 16 answers · asked by Nickoo 5

Infant mortality is used to compare the health and well-being of populations across and within countries. The infant mortality rate, the rate at which babies less than one year of age die, has continued to steadily decline over the past several decades, from 26.0 per 1,000 live births in 1960 to 6.9 per 1,000 live births in 2000. The United States ranked 28th in the world in infant mortality in 1998

Infant mortality among African Americans in 2000 occurred at a rate of 14.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.2 This is more than twice the national average of 6.9 deaths per 1,000 live births.

2007-06-12 05:49:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

A: Conservative

B: Insecure

C: Borderline autistic

D: All of the above...?

2007-06-12 05:47:33 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

keep the phone calls, emails and faxes going! It's not over yet. Is this issue important enough for you to continue protesting?

http://capwiz.com/gopusa/issues/alert/?alertid=9787731&PROCESS=Take+Action

2007-06-12 05:46:07 · 11 answers · asked by Cherie 6

News flash, people: There is NO movement afoot to abort every pregnancy in the world.

Abortion is an intensely personal, private matter for a woman. No one has the ability to force an abortion.

Hitler was exterminating an entire race of people.

One woman can only have one abortion at a time. And NO ONE is saying abortion should be the standard (save those few stupid right-wing extremists who say all liberals should be forced to have abortions).

There is no comparison between the two. If you're going to make an argument, could you at least make it a rational one?

2007-06-12 05:44:24 · 15 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6

2007-06-12 05:37:59 · 9 answers · asked by guiseppeamore 2

Do you think Al is trying as hard as I am to be a good little ECO-Friendly person?

What about ALL the "GREEN" people?

2007-06-12 05:32:33 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hey, it's been a couple days hasn't it?
I haven't had anything to mock and laugh at since her LAST comments.

2007-06-12 05:29:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Consider the 14 characteristics of a fascist state.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism and Patriotism.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause.

4. Supremacy of the Military.

5. Rampant Sexism.

6. Controlled Mass Media.

7. Obsession with National Security.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined.

9. Corporate Power is Protected.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption.

14. Fraudulent Elections.

2007-06-12 05:29:38 · 30 answers · asked by Incognito 5

Did you EVER hear of a FIELD TRIP to a Catholic Church - I didn't. A Mosque - a woman read to the children from the Koran while they were there! UNBELIVABLE!

Now, CHILDREN are being taken to Planned Parenthood?
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Manchester+schools+probe+controversial+field+trip&articleId=ca9b362d-7781-4ee8-808f-b8bd2f630a7c

What ever happened to the Museum, The Circus, or the Zoo?

2007-06-12 05:27:25 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 05:26:18 · 3 answers · asked by Jennifer 3

Terrorism or Global Warming?

2007-06-12 05:23:56 · 14 answers · asked by Jim C 5

and why?????

2007-06-12 05:22:15 · 23 answers · asked by The Wondeful World of ME! 1

2007-06-12 05:20:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a liberal for many reasons. On here I read from each side that the other isn't patriotic or the other wants a dictatorship, or the other wants terrorists to take over the country. Are you serious? We exercise what might be the greatest right given to us in this country (freedom of speech) and are accused of being anti-American? Isn't that being anti-American?

Why can't both sides realize that the other side wants to do what's best for the country and they have different ideas of making that happen?

2007-06-12 05:19:40 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

And do you still believe our greatest export is the American Dream or Mass killing and Invasions of smaller unprotected countries?

2007-06-12 05:11:09 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

[edit] Prefertilization effects
The combined Pill primarily prevents pregnancy by preventing ovulation. In women who take the pills correctly, ovulation is prevented in 98-99% of cycles. Forgetting to take one or more pills increases ovulation rates; one study found skipping two pills in a row resulted in ovulation in 29% of cycles.[46] (In women not taking the Pill, pregnancy occurs in approximately 25% of ovulatory cycles.)[47]

In the event of breakthrough ovulation, secondary contraceptive mechanisms are believed to come into play. Proposed secondary mechanisms active before fertilization include thickening of cervical mucus, which can prevent or slow sperm entry into the uterus, and changes in tube transport inhibiting sperm migration to the fallopian tubes.[48]


[edit] Postfertilization effects
Mechanisms that act after fertilization are controversial; according to those who define pregnancy as beginning at fertilization such mechanisms make the method abortifacient.

2007-06-12 05:10:16 · 13 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6

Pro-American governments just won in France, German and Japan and so on and so on.

why is that? I think only America-Hating Liberals and the Terrorists think the World hate America.

2007-06-12 05:08:07 · 24 answers · asked by Samm 6

2007-06-12 05:05:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not all liberals I must say have this mentality, but I do find the hardcore far-left liberal has no tolerence for anyone who may disagree with him or her on various issues such pro-life as pro-abortion.

If liberals pride themselves as free thinkers and open-minded...how come they are so closed minded to opinions of others who might disagree with thier philosophies?

2007-06-12 05:01:43 · 19 answers · asked by gordowlk61 1

No Child Left Behind Act Is Working/NCLB Benefits Children, Empowers Parents, Supports Teachers and Strengthens schools. Its much the tests. Its the real deal.
Accountability laws for schools have a dramatic imrovement in teacher performance,and development, teachers have to worker harder to meet the higher goals, schools have the tools now the funding and the programs.....to meet the success of ALL students.
Ask almost any school administrator, education policymaker or think-tank wonk about NCLB, and you're guaranteed to get at least one sunny metaphor about how the law opened a window, raised a curtain or otherwise illuminated the plight of the nation's underserved kids.
"At the end of the day, who can argue with holding schools accountable for all children?" "Who can argue with not tolerating failing schools or with giving poor kids the kinds of choices that wealthier kids have.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article

2007-06-12 04:59:40 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think its a coincidence that schools let out recently too?

2007-06-12 04:57:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do your own research.. no links, but today they reported that the situation in Afghanistan as well as Iraq is now so bad that it is near the point of no return....

Civilians are being killed by all sides, particularly the coalition led by Americans......

There was another attempt on the life of the puppet President, only yesterday...

Where is this Freedom that these people were promised?

2007-06-12 04:56:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous